PEPCON Explosions 35 YEARS LATER
Posted: 04/05/2023 Filed under: Las Vegas, News | Tags: 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster, 4 May 1988, Ammonium perchlorate, Blog, Blogging, Pacific Engineering and Production Company of Nevada (PEPCON) chemical plant, PEPCON Explosion, Vegas Valley, Writer, Writing Leave a commentOn 4 May 1988 shock waves from the series of powerful PEPCON explosions buffeted a Boeing 737 on final approach to McCarran International Airport seven miles away and cracked and shattered windows and blew doors off their hinges in a radius up to ten miles in diameter. It was one of the most powerful series of explosions in Nevada and in US history, completely leveling the Pacific Engineering and Production Company of Nevada (PEPCON) chemical plant in Henderson, Nevada. The site is where the Valley Auto Mall is today. A significant portion of the Vegas Valley was affected by the powerful blasts. PEPCON disaster
Video from 5 years ago by Las Vegas News 3. Firetrucks were tossed around like Tonka toys from shock waves. Thousands of homes and businesses damaged or destroyed. Everyone in the Vegas Valley heard and felt the explosions that came like earthquakes. Fear from the mushroom clouds toxic chemicals overwhelmed local residents.
Live Footage Recorded as the PEPCON Plant Vaporized
A Short Documentary about the PEPCON Explosions
The PEPCON Explosions Fox5Vegas News “It was the most powerful civilian explosion in the history of the United States, caused by the storage of ammonium perchlorate – used in the space program as an oxidizer for rocket fuel.” –Fox5Vegas News
The company, Pacific Engineering and Production Company of Nevada (PEPCON), changed their name to Western Electrochemical Co. OR WECCO and moved production operations from Henderson, Nevada to Cedar City, Utah where in 1997 another blast involving Ammonium Perchlorate killed again.
Cedar City Blast of 1997 Similar to the PEPCON Blast. Same company, owned by American Pacific Corp in Las Vegas, just changed their name. Or more clearly two separate companies with same or similar production operations owned by the same parent company.
1997 Utah Explosion Stirs Memories of 1988 Nevada Blast
“Kerr-McGee, the only other company making the critical oxidizer, later moved their production facilities from a site a mile from the Pepcon blast to a rural area northeast of Las Vegas.” –Deseret News
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1986 SPACE SHUTTLE CHALLENGER DISASTER
The 28 January 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster Predates the PEPCON explosion and many believe the space shuttle disaster contributed to the PEPCON explosion because with the space shuttle program shutdown while the Challenger disaster was investigated the ammonium perchlorate PEPCON manufactured was stockpiled in mass quantities making the fuel for the fire and explosions far more dangerous.
Judith Resnik One of Seven Astronauts to Die on the Space Shuttle Challenger
There is a Bad Moon Rising in the Vegas Valley
Posted: 29/04/2023 Filed under: Las Vegas, News | Tags: Writing, Blogging, Writer, Crime, Murder, Homicide, Las Vegas Places 9th in Nation for Murder Rate, Crime Rising in Las Vegas Leave a commentLas Vegas is clearly a dangerous place to live and visit. Visitors and locals alike need to be vigilant and aware of their surroundings.
There have been several recent attacks in and around Strip Casinos, in the Fremont Street corridor and throughout the valley.
There have been countless unprovoked attacks, random selection of victims of shootings, stabbings, gang fights and multiple other violent conflicts against tourists, residents, police, and many others.
Simply put, Vegas Valley is NOT a safe place to live or visit.
Still, more and more tourists are going home in body bags or with large medical bills after being attacked.
The attackers are becoming more aggressive, and their targets are easy prey.
The Vegas Valley flourishes for but one reason, the tourist trade. Some local residents detest tourists, and it is not uncommon to see bumper stickers with negative statements about tourist. While we cannot pry the truth from those people’s cold hard hands, the fact to the matter is, the Vegas Valley only survives because of tourists.
Las Vegas is the epitome for defense attorneys willing to defend the predators against the victims without shame. The vast majority of judges are soft on crime. The local prosecutors are substandard. The city and county officials are the utopians of Oscar B. Goodman’s Don of mafia hierarchy and his wife continues to reign the throne with more than a quarter of a century of Goodmans being overwhelmingly elected by a people who care not about victims, but only about leftwing politics that patronize the unions, the city, county and state public workers and the hundreds of nonprofits that flourish here unchecked, unbound and with pure impunity.
One such nonprofit has received over 50 million dollars a year from the people’s tax money and donations and funneled by city and country officials to the hands of the corrupt and criminal nonprofits and slumlord properties.
HELP of Southern Nevada takes in millions of dollars a year, fully funds clients that are violent, drug dealing and drug users, alcoholic and obese, freeloading on donors and the taxpayers, without any structure to guide these “clients” to a useful and productive life and without any agendas to move them into work programs and self-sustaining lifestyles.
There are hundreds of nonprofit organizations in the Vegas Valley with the top head skimming and scamming millions of dollars of the people’s money in their own pocket and no one is investigating them.
The IRS, which is supposed to govern these so-called charities, turns a blind eye.
I have tons of raw videos showing the drug dealing, drug use, prostitution, criminal acts, alcoholics, violence, and hundreds of able body persons riding bicycles, and doing things the “disabled” wouldn’t be able to do while they freeload the system you the taxpayers and donors fund, and yes, Martha, bodies being loaded in body bags right outside my window.
There is no will or desire to shut down slumlords or their illegal operations. The city, county and state benefits too much from them, the unions flourish because of them, and the public workers, nonprofits and medical professionals all make their living because of them.
The murders and the rising death tolls are nothing new to this 89101 zip code neighborhood which is DOWNTOWN LAS VEGAS. There have been runaway crime rates for decades and as long as the soft-on-crime judges prevail and the mismanaged METRO police department continues to run the way it has, that crime will continue to increase.
Smiling Joe Lombardo lied his way all the way to the Nevada Governor’s seat and now he is proud to claim his wonders worked in collaring crime in the Vegas Valley and greater Nevada. The truth is Lombardo, and his lack of experience and intelligence is the cause of constantly increasing crime in the Vegas Valley.
In 2010 this neighborhood in 89101 and 89106 in Downtown Las Vegas were listed as the 3rd, 4th and 8th most dangerous neighborhoods in the United States by the FBI.
Las Vegas has a history of high crime
America’s Most Dangerous Neighborhoods in 2010 (Downtown Las Vegas took 3rd, 4th and 8th place in the nation)
Las Vegas Places 9th for the Current Homicide Rate
Vegas Ranks 9th for Murder Increase
Nevada Places 6th for the Highest Drug Use (Where there is drugs there is crime.)
Homicide Lt. Ray Spencer tells the gloomy story of children in crime scenes and more.
Homicides Increasing and Children are Among Them
Murder Increases 110% in Vegas in 2021 over 2020
Las Vegas Ranked 7th in Nation for Homicide in 2021 Read some of the current news blotters and see what is happening in Vegas.
Every day, first responders are on this property, police, paramedic, fire department and others, and no one reports any of the violent and life threatening or life taking activities… no one!
Many public records were falsified to cover up the continued crime and play it down. I have footage of serious gunfights and assassination attempts by drug gangs on this property that were never reported in the news or even significantly investigated by LVMPD under either Lombardo or Gillespie command.

If you don’t fight crime it is going to grow, and Joe Lombardo and his forces let crime grow and get out of hand and it is still growing.
But in all fairness, Vegas police were defunded and under funded like the rest of the nation’s law enforcement forces during this period of WOKE and soft on crime era that still continues despite more people are stuffed into body bags,
Am I recommending a DO NOT VISIT LAS VEGAS strategy? No, I am not. Rising crime and violence is growing all over America and all over the world. The powers that be force the rest of us to worship their crime lords and take a soft-on-crime attitude rather than have sympathy and compassion for the victims and their families.
Metro police department spends more time and taxpayer money on cons and ex-cons and zero on victim’s welfare. The entire utopia is the same way, many of them government agencies and government workers, public workers, creating nonprofits that channel millions of dollars into their hands to skim and scam while pretending to be doing something about the same problems that has existed for decades and will continue to exist.
These people retire years before the average private sector worker, with more money, more fringe benefits, and more luxury than most people can even imagine.
Some crimes are just unstoppable. Recently a government worker murdered a journalist who was writing about him and exposing his corruption. How could something like that be prevented? There have been many teachers and other public workers, police, firemen, and others, arrested for engaging in sex with minors and doing other evil things.
There have been a number of alleged suicides by government workers when the heat on them became too hot. I say alleged because sometimes these deaths are truly suspicious.
There have been several cases of public workers caught with their hands in the cookie jar stealing sometimes millions of public dollars, often on gambling and other vices. You seldom hear about these cases again. They often get lost in the news of forever forgotten.
Judges and DAs and other ranking officials have had their names in the news for one reason or the other.
One female public defender was discovered sleeping with her client, a gangbanger on trial for some crime and he became her “boyfriend.”
There is no stopping the adventures that happen in Vegas. Sometimes it stays here and sometimes it doesn’t. Since the invention of the internet and cell phones a lot more gets out than used to, but still there is an overwhelming effort to keep the lid on things.
Should you move to Vegas? I do not recommend it unless you do so by a job transfer, and then I would not pull up roots entirely in your old hometown, if that is where you are coming from.
The Vegas Valley and Alaska run neck-to-neck on being the number one place for spouse abuse and attacks on females. Divorce is as high as crime and often crime is involved in domestic disputes. One year Alaska leads. The next year Nevada leads and Vegas is the primary hot spot. These two leaders of domestic spouse abuse have teetertottered back and forth for decades.
Too, the Vegas Valley, like everywhere else, has mental health problems unshackled. The mental health problems are monumental, and growing. I have my opinions on this subject, but I don’t think the public has had enough violence to listen yet. Too frequently, case after case, the perpetrator is assessed and evaluated to see if he is competent to stand trial. More often than not he is not and that means he gets a lighter sentence and different treatment for being insane while someone who is sane that did something just as crazy meets his maker and judgment much quicker.
Our justice system is antiquated and while we frown on capital punishment, we call ourselves civil while innocent people are butchered in cold blood and tortured without defense or compassion as the predator gets the full support of defense lawyers, court law and soft-on-crime judges and a sympathetic society. The victim gets nothing except weeping family and loved ones.
I would seriously think of a different place to go if you have children. Vegas is hostile to children and children are victimized by a host of violent crimes, including at school. For the sake of your children, you need to give really serious thought before loading up the car and packing your stuff.
The Vegas Valley has been at the bottom of the list for schools and education, sometimes dead last. Drugs run rampant in schools. Racism is high.
Visiting and moving here are two different thing. What I would suggest is to take a leave of absence if you can from current work at the hometown, either move your things into a local storage or accommodate your home and possessions somehow. If you rent instead of owning it, it may be easier.
Then come to Vegas and rent an extended stay or low-term lease and settle in for a few months to see how it works out. You can always go back home or send for your possessions, and you will be on solid grown and be better informed. You may like it and may work out. You may not like it and you have an out.
Either way, you don’t box yourself in this way.
In the “Newsroom” link in the navigation bar, or menu are a few links to local news media, print and TV. Search your search engine and find many more and then tune in on a daily basis and monitor the crime happening here in Vegas and keep tabs on it. The murders, the robberies, the rapes, the whole busload of violence. That way when you come to visit you can have a better idea of what to expect and what to do to reduce your chances and your families chances of being involved in crime. Of course random crime, which is much of what happens in Vegas no one can be prepared for.
What Can I Do to Prevent Being a Victim of Crime?
- Research the internet until your fingers gets numb: “How to stay safe in high crime areas.” Write keywords similar to that and research all you can.
- Here in Vegas, travel in at least pairs or more. Never travel alone. Often multiple people are attacked at once here, but the sheer safety is in numbers. While one is being attacked, others should be on the phone calling 911. And know where you are at all times so you can leave directions to dispatch. Keep your phone on all levels for tracking and notification of location so police can track your pings.
- Search the local laws which change frequently and learn weapons restrictions. You cannot even have a pocket knife over three or four inches here. So be aware of your limits and plan ahead just how you will defend yourself if attacked.
- Often violence comes after arguments, and arguments come after people get drunk or someone says something to another that sparks anger. Try to avoid these conditions, which are difficult if you want to party and have fun. But keeping your mouth shut to others will probably keep you out of 99% of the trouble.
- Offenders are getting far more brazen than they were even just a few years ago. They attack in casinos, in front of security and/or police, they have no boundaries.
- Keep your batteries well charged on your phone and use the camera or video to record any attack while guarding your phone from being stolen. The evidence will be helpful.
- Staying in crowds is NOT always safe, criminals have knifed people on the Strip that were in crowds, complete random attacks. But being in crowds, again, leaves you with a better chance of getting faster help. But don’t expect a guardian angel as too often people just don’t want to get involved anymore.
DREAMS END WHERE NIGHTMARES BEGIN
Homeless Camps Growing Across Las Vegas
Human Trafficking Has Always been a Big Ticket in Las Vegas Officials Simply DO NOT CARE!
Have fun if you are planning a trip to Vegas, but have a trusted one watch your back.
Bad Moon Rising–Creedence Clearwater Revival

It’s Raining in Downtown Las Vegas
Posted: 29/03/2023 Filed under: Big Tech,, Las Vegas, Lifestyle | Tags: Blog, Blogging, Blogs, Downtown Las Vegas, It’s Raining in Downtown Las Vegas, There’s no grass in the Vegas Valley, Vegas Valley, Writer, Writers, Writing Leave a commentI like the rain. Not too much, though. Back home, in Upstate New York, in the Saratoga County area, I used to sit on my back porch with a beer and watch the grass grow.
There’s no grass in the Vegas Valley or very little of it. The not-so-wise powers that be are in the process of pulling out all the grass and anything that uses water. I’m going to see what I can do about stopping that since it creates extreme hazards, health hazards and environmental hazards.
We’ve had more rain this year than in some years past. We have gone nearly full years without rain. For more than a decade the Vegas Valley along with much of the west and southwest have been in a significant drought. Lake Mead and the Colorado River where we get our water from has been low for years.
Vegas originated as a dust bowl and will return to an unhealthy dust bowl if we don’t find some powers that be with something between their ears besides empty space. The Vegas Valley already has major health problems from the massive dust. Those powers that be I was mentioning don’t do anything about it and they always seem to be hiring construction companies constantly to tear up the valley and create more dust, year after year.
They’ll spend a billion dollars on a project and a year later come along and tear it up again. And then the next year the same thing.
One year it’s the water pipes. Then it’s the 100-year flood and there is nowhere for the water to go so they build washes. Then they take the washes out and dig up the whole system again, claiming the sewer system underneath is 100 years ago and needs replacement. Then it is to out in a new bus stops for this train-like bus. That idea only lasted a year and many of those new bus stops were abandoned or ripped out. Then it’s the water system again. Now they are doing the sewer system again and driving cockroaches and rats and all the other critters that live down in the underground underworld up into our environment. I could write a weekly column on that nonsense, but I have too many other subjects already on the table for my weekly columns and I don’t have enough weeks to launch them all.
Dark Skies and Cloudy Weather Don’t Always Bring Rain or Snow to the Vegas Valley, but the higher elevations like up in Mount Charleston, usually get some.

I have a trilogy of weekly columns in the work-in-progress stage concerning the Twitter disaster and the Musketeers. Now I have plenty of material for that kind of weekly column. I suppose I could for the dust monsters, too, but I’ll just write my criticism of those certain officials that have no idea pf the major health problems they cause or the environmental damage they cause by destroying the greenery in order to conserve water. No, they know. They just don’t care. Once they set their minds to the wrecking ball, things get wrecked and that’s just the way it is.
In Vegas, things are always destroyed and the new takes its place. That is the way is and has always been and probably always will be.
I have tons of videos that I can show you where here in the Downtown Las Vegas 89101 area, the Maverick has mega tons of water run offs daily from outdated and mismanaged sprinkler systems. That water is wasted and with the runoff washing the dangerous toxic chemicals and filthy debris from the ground surface into the drain system, they are carrying with it a chemical toxicity and debris pollution into our drinking water supply. Clogged up storm drains become a hazard when flooding occurs during the monsoon season. Nobody cares. Nobody does anything about it. There is no security on premise, even though management lies and claims there is, there is no one monitoring or detecting the water breach, except me, of course. Police, county workers, lots of people drawing official pay checks drive right past it, see it, and never report it to their comrades in their utopia. Nope, not the union worker’s job. So mega tons of water is wasted and it’s been that way here in Downtown Las Vegas 89101 at the Maverick for years and years. That’s just one single apartment building. All around the city are signs of major water waste coming from apartment complexes, auto repair stations, residential homes and just about anywhere one looks. The Utopians do nothing.
Complaints after complaints to the local and state officials have dropped on unconcerned, uncaring and nonperforming bureaucrats that are cluttering our government positions and that refuse to come out of their offices and investigate complaints. I will step up the heat and spark some flames under their lazy butts in the coming days and weeks, like a blow torch or maybe like one of Elon Musk’s Boring Company flamethrowers, so there then, I will have plenty to write about. Which means you will have plenty to read.
The federal government isn’t so concerned about the dust problems as it so broadcasts, so We the People need to protect ourselves.
Dust is a contributing factor to heart attacks. I have been hospitalized three times since November 2022 for heart failure and lung failure with the area dust in this apartment and this neighborhood for the past year, a major contributing factor, not to mention the busloads of chain smokers that congregate outside my windows. For years this apartment complex used landscapers that used giant leaf blowers to blow debris instead of rake, shovel and garbage cans. They blew huge dust clouds which contributed to major health problems. Air pollution is a significant cause of heart attacks and respiratory shut down. Not one politician or bureaucrat in Las Vegas, Clark County, even the entire state of Nevada did one things to stop this gigantic cause of health problems. But I did. I don’t know if I stopped it yet, but I slowed it down some. But I am not finished yet. I can only move so fast and do so much with my not-so-good health and trying medical conditions. I’ll get there, I promise you that.
All these government entities spend millions on advertising yakking about clean air, yet they are one of the contributing factors to the air pollution here in the Vegas Valley and have been for decades. The federal government is just as inept.
The fallacy of local, state and federal government and agencies thereof to be do any to protect and serve the people is disgusting. Unionized, over fed, under worked and lazy government bureaucrats clutter up our office buildings, provide themselves with perks and luxuries the private sector can only dream about, like four day work week, young-age retirement and every holiday off including stub-your-toe days. Yet we the people must complain again and again for them to move and get anything done. They are not proactive. They are frozen like figures in ice and need to chip away and find a spot to warm up the can with the heat creating flamethrower that melts that ice and frozen, non-performing state of uselessness.
I’ll be talking more about the water shortage. Let me correct that. I’ll talk more about the MAN-MADE water shortage soon. And man-made isn’t gender pronoun shameful, plenty of women cause the water waste and the shortage too.
As I move on to other subjects, just so you know, many people complain about the Bellagio Las Vegas, the hotel and casino operation wasting water during this decades long drought and water shortage, with their spectacular fountains and ponds, but the water Bellagio uses if from their own water source, not the public system.
A simple drive by of the Maverick Apartments and Hidden Village one can see the runoff evidence even when the water isn’t running off at the moment, but the washed away stones. How many millions of gallons are lost per year?
Who uses the most water in the Las Vegas Valley? Take a look for the surprising answers from two local news groups:
TOP 215 WATER USERS IN VEGAS VALLEY
8 News Now.com I-Team Investigates. Top Water Users in the Las Vegas Valley Revealed
TOP BUSINESSES, CASINOS, GOLF COURSE WATER USERS
Top Water Users in Las Vegas Metro Area Revealed
I spoke yesterday about Natalie’s and Edgar’s water. I forgot to say how much better their water tastes and what a difference between their water and the tap water, which has an awful taste, even after boiling. Natalie’s and Edgar’s water is much better than vending machine water, too, which is about the same taste as tap water. I’ll set up a quick review in the future and for you tourist I’ll give you directions so you can go off strip and have yourself some ice cream.
Lights flicking, so I kind of rushed this post between unreliable Cox Communication AKA Cox Cable and the shoddy grid here in the Vegas Valley afraid the internet will go down. We’re not much further again than third world’s countries when it comes to internet service. Hurrying to get this post finished and my breakfast done before the lights go out or cable goes down. Hurrying writing is not a good thing, I am going to work on getting posts pre-scheduled and done right. I need to work ahead of time with a couple days to rest the articles and edit them with a fresh mind before publishing them.
Today, if the Cox system doesn’t go down or the lights don’t go out, I will be trying to figure out how to follow my followers back and how to leave likes. I know Firefox has a bunch of popup blockers and when I shut them off I can like, but I can’t follow.
I’m too old to be energetic enough to startup a new tech company, and I lack the educational skill to put one together without a talented team needed to succeed.
It’s too late for me but the Consultant would tell you that you young whippersnappers could create user friendly blogging platforms and other Big Tech companies and compete with these tyrants. You don’t even need to compete with the tyrants, just cut yourself out a niche and a support following to fill it and make things user friendly, easy, clean, and non-oppressive.
Why hide so many key functions? Why bury the essential things we need to perform our tasks such as the logout button being at the bottom of the page or needing several clicks to get to it? Why take out an entire generation of users just to make yourself feel smart and so clever you infuriate the customers or clients that feed your face?
Your customers make your paycheck and if you don’t understand that basic business fact, you are in a whale of trouble. Make things easy for them, not complicated and you will increase your revenue several folds. Most people are NOT like me. They often will not complain or tell anyone of their frustrations and dissatisfaction, they will just leave and never look back.
I often get accused of complaining too much. I don’t. I complain with a reason and a will to see a problem solved. I either offer solutions for fixing the problems I complain about or I communicate my disappointment with the people who can fix the problem.
Don’t show me how to use the complicated way to do a simple task, like to follow back the people that follow me and like the people who blogs I visit and read and want to contribute to their community. Instead, explain to me why you destroyed the once so simple system to begin with? Why did you install the hide-and-go-seek system that insults me?
Sure, I can figure it out if I take all day. You don’t have the right to hold me hostage, Big Tech, and take all of my time up. Following indicators should be right next to the bloggers name, indicating if they are following you and there should be a follow button right next to that so you can follow back, instantly. Period.
To like someone’s post ought to be simple, a one time click and done. Systems should be compatible with each other, if they are not there ought to be a gigantic poster saying something like FIREFOX IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH WORDPRESS. USE A DIFFERENT BROWSER.
Maybe Firefox has out lived its usefulness and needs to die off. I tend to believe Firefox is more to blame on the like button issue than WordPress, but I can’t make likes on any of my browsers. Again, unless it is the virus app, either way, their is communication problems between apps and systems that must be used together and that are incompatible with each other. It takes too long to figure out which company is guilty. That is not the way for Big Tech to treat their customers. They need to get together and learn the problems of their systems and platforms and fix them.
The problem with many Big Tech companies is that once they achieve ultimate performance the engineers and designers have nothing to do so they tinker with things, changing things and thus ruin the masterpiece they originally developed.
Open source or not, there comes a time when someone in top command must say, okay, this is it. We achieved state of the arts masterpiece don’t touch a thing. And be serious about it.
You youngins roll your sleeve up and go make the world a better place to live one step at a time. Just do it! Be a doer. Make things easy for people and not complicated and I promise you they will come running to you. Don’t copy others. That’s where misguided engineers fail. Instead of using their own innovations they copy others and usually they are copying bad systems. Be a leader. Be unique. I promise you, go back to basic and you will sleep better at night.
Because I am not a quitter and I go by the motto, never quit, I won’t quit. I will learn how to fix this substandard system of WordPress following and liking, be the blame with me, WordPress, Firefox, Chrome, Bing, Cox, Microsoft, my virus program and PC body guard, or some trolling gremlin. I will find the way. But even if I do, every word I said above still holds like concrete.
All you that follows me, liked my posts, I want you to know I appreciate it, I appreciate you and I am working on getting rid of whatever gremlin is interfering with our communication system.
Until then, stay dry. We need rain in the Vegas Valley and a lot of it. Not all at once. Just a nice slow drizzle for about 40 days and 40 nights. And people that are wasting water, STOP THAT!
Gordon Lightfoot, Rainy Day People with Lyrics
Spring Is Here in Downtown Las Vegas
Posted: 28/03/2023 Filed under: Las Vegas, Lifestyle | Tags: Blog, Blogging, Blogs, Cliff Harrison, Greywater, Ice cream, Spring Is Here in Downtown Las Vegas, Vegas Valley, Writer, Writers, Writing Leave a commentIt was a warm, spring day today in Downtown Las Vegas as I went out for the first time in a while. I needed to refill my water jugs and stock up on my water supply. I will review the place I go to in one of the upcoming blog posts, but first I will get their permission. I’ve been buying my water off Natalie and her husband, Edgar, for some time now. Their son David often fills my water jugs for me, as he did today. He’s only 12 years old, but he is tall, mature and looks and acts much older.
I originally buy fresh one-gallon jugs of water from a local retail market and then refill them with water from Natalie’s and Edgar’s Mexican ice cream store. They have this huge water filtration plant and purification system at the back of the store and run a nice little family operation that is a pleasure to visit and do business with. They charge less per gallon of fresh, purified and filtered water than from those vending machines that simply tap into the city’s greywater supply that run through simple filters that seldom get changed. I refill eight one gallon containers at a time and since I use a walker that is all I can handle. They can fill any size container but besides the gallon jugs the 5-gallons containers are the most common. I can’t lift those big containers due to medical reasons. Since I push my walker and not lift the contents all at once, I can get away with what I do. I’ll get permission for a review, take some photos, and run a post or two shortly. But today was a good day to be outside. A great day, actually.
I usually stock up on 3-4 weeks of water supply. But I haven’t gotten out much lately due to severe chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia that has kept me bedridden more than functioning. One or the other is a trying dysfunctional condition, the two of them coupled with multiple other neurological disorders that I have including Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Emotional Lability (not liability, but lability) are horrible to endure and places the inflicted in severe pain as well as many other sorry notes. Many with my condition either commit suicide or mass murder. I have never had an inkling to do either. I vent by writing and I hope to teach others, so they learn from the experiences of those who suffer from these horrible neurological disorders. No two people have identical experiences and the medical industry are lost on finding any hope for a cure or reliable treatment for any of the conditions. More than likely doctors misdiagnose or are clueless in what to do.
Anyway, for this post I took a break from using my verbal slingshot at the Cox Family and Elon Musk and all the others. But that won’t last long, I assure you.
It was good to get out today. I left home in a denim jacket that quickly grew warm. Vegas weather is unpredictable. You can lose a lot of jackets and coats by leaving home in a cool or cold morning only to have the sun rise and warm things up, so you take your coat off and leave it someplace it won’t be there when you go back after you remember you forgot it. I am enjoying this weather. It will be getting unbearably hot soon in the Vegas Valley.
Before I went to Natalie’s and Edgar’s I went to the Dollar Tree. I’m disappointed in that store which is often a good place to shop but sometimes trying. There is a huge turnover of employees and managers. Today was a whole new crew. Even my favorite people were gone. Many shelves were bare. This store is up and down on keeping things in stock.
Well, don’t tell anybody because I’m not supposed to have any, but when I went to Natalie’s and Edgar’s, I treated myself to an ice cream sandwich and boy was it good! What a lifestyle, huh?
Spring is here and one has to bring spring in with a little bit of self-celebration. Now, it is time for spring cleaning, ugh.
Changing the world, one step at a time.
Public Notice of Litigation
Posted: 26/05/2022 Filed under: Clark County, Las Vegas, Negligence Gross Negligence and Willful and Malicious Misconduct ,, News, The Litigator | Tags: Clifford G. Harrison, Lawsuit, Maverick, Maverick Apartments, Public Notice of Litigation, Ty-De Development Inc., Writer, Writers Leave a commentLegal Notice 26 May 2022
Emergency Notice of Intent to Sue and other Legal Announcements
A Pro Se litigation

Plaintiff Clifford G. Harrison v. Defendants Ty-De Development, as a corporation, Shyr-Jin-Tsay aka Jim Tsay, Barbara Tsay, Lily Lin and Maribel Chavez as individuals and as principles or benefactors and employees of Ty-De Development Corporation.
This means you are being sued as individuals and as representative of a corporation. The amounts are in the multimillions of dollars for each defendant.
You have a legal right to an attorney, however if you engage an attorney or any other third party to represent you, all generous forthcoming self-represented opportunity to settle out of court and hold down litigation costs will be nullified, and void and the court shall be informed you refused an out of court settlement of negotiation thereof.
A trial by jury shall be enlisted in the Eighth Judicial Court of Nevada to hear the multimillion dollar claims and case of the plaintiff v. the defendants if an agreeable out of court settlement is not reached.
Full deportation for terrorism, torture, and immoral conduct is in progress with this case and with federal agencies that have jurisdiction over the above named immigrant defendants.
Multiple witnesses are ready and able to testify against the defendants for their wrongful acts of civil and criminal nature.
THIS TIME I AM THE PLAINTIFF AND YOU ARE THE DEFENDANTS.
To Wit: This time, I, Clifford G. Harrison, am the plaintiff in a federal lawsuit against the above named as defendants.
To Wit: This proceeding is a notice intent to sue and precedes the written legal notices to Tsay and Lin and for the demand to settle.
To Wit: Maribel Chavez is claimed to be the property manager at Maverick Apartments where the victim/plaintiff resides. Maribel Chavez has limited authority in the management of said apartments but has no authority to act in legal proceedings brought against the above named defendants, except for herself as an individual, as doing so would be against federal and state statutes.
To Wit: This is a summary of the forthcoming legal action taken by Plaintiff Clifford G. Harrison v. Defendant Shyr-Jin-Tsay, individually and as principle to Ty-De Development and to Defendant Lily Lin as an individual and principle in the same. And Barbara Tsay, a beneficiary of the income from the property. This notice is sent by email and public notification due to a notice found on the outside of the plaintiff’s door the morning of 26 May 2022 that expresses a pest control company will enter my apartment and spray harmful chemicals in my residents due to Maribel Chavez gross mismanagement, negligence, willful and malicious misconduct and dozens of other felony crimes and civil offenses which are being listed in the legal papers to be served upon the Tsay family and corporation as well as federal agencies.
To Wit: The victim/plaintiff is highly allergic to pesticides. Any chemical spraying or threat thereof, near the living quarters of the plaintiff shall be regarded as gross negligence and criminal vulnerable elder abuse and shall be referred to the United States Department of Justice Americans with Disability Act and other federal agencies as well the said court. We went through this before. If Maribel Chavez cannot recall the situation, she will be reminded on the witness stand of the jury trial, under the penalty of perjury, with witnesses of the previous occurrence, if we need to go to that extreme.
To Wit: The plaintiff is an expert on bug control, especially bedbugs, cockroaches and other pest and has written extensively on the subject. The current cockroach infestation is due directly to the mismanagement and gross negligence of Maribel Chavez, Tsay and Lin and other associates and directly causes the situation. It is also due to the direct negligence of local public officials to do their duties of office and nonprofits which operate outside the law and to obey the rules within their IRS 501(c) (3) status. These other parties are being sued separately from Tsay and Lin and involve different federal agencies.
To Wit: The plaintiff stakes claim on his apartment unit for ownership as part of the first phase of negotiation of multimillion dollar damage settlement for an out of court settlement as a condo with terms and conditions negotiated with Tsay and Lin for damages of the harms against the plaintiff. The plaintiff also stakes claims in the second phase of negotiations for ownership on Buildings A, B, C and D in the Maverick Apartment complex with terms and conditions as partial out of court settlement for the compensatory damages and punitive damages settlement. That information is private and between Tsay and Lin in their negotiation. It is only mentioned here to make all hostile or aggressive parties, including Chavez, to know that it is part of a legal process and their interference in such could be legally costly for them.
To Wit: Maribel Chavez and Gina have been instructed of the severe disabilities of the victim/plaintiff and has ignored repeated requests to comply with the special needs of the plaintiff. One, for posting notices of any action, shall be posted upon the window of the plaintiff as directed. Not the door. To make appointments to comply with plaintiff’s health needs. And other instructions of complying with health needs, all ignored.
To Wit: Maribel Chavez is unlawfully retaliating against the plaintiff after written complaints to local, state and federal authorities have been alerted to her crimes and civil wrongs as well as other legal situations.
To Wit: The plaintiff is severely disabled and cannot perform at the speed and smoothness that normal persons can perform and therefore must be allowed his Constitutional rights, Civil Rights and Human Rights to be free of attacks and unlawful actions.
To Wit: Maribel Chavez has wrongfully allowed in a negligent manner multiple squatters upon the property, unlawful homeless persons on the property and visitors without any security or vetting systems and many of these visitors bring bugs with them. These unchecked and unvetted persons by the gross negligence of Tsay, Lin and Chavez has presented extreme danger to the tenants, including fires, violence and even deaths.
To Wit: The plaintiff has demanded that Maribel Chavez, Tsay and Lin provide 24/7 security on the property with fulltime patrols boots on the ground, not worthless drive by patrols, and they provide none. The laws that require security and safe protection of the tenants which are ignored shall be sited in the papers delivered to Tsay and Lin. Wrongful security companies are still posted on the premise.
To Wit: Demand is hereby made to list the current security company for the property. The name of the company, manner in which security is served and the phone number is demanded. This demand must be met with an answer to this email in 24 hours of 12:00 Noon Thursday, 26 May 2022.
To Wit: The assistant manager named Gina shall forward to the plaintiff her last name and complete legal name as well as her real estate licensing information including the number. That request must be made within 24 hours as stated above.
To Wit: Clean up the hazardous waste of the dogs crapping all over the front of my unit and the property. Your cockroaches are from overwhelmed feces and urine of dogs, especially pit bulls. The drains are access where a large number of cockroaches are traveling in part because of local city and county sewage activity, massive squatters in empty units, no security to check trespassers, no supervision on property, and unlawful action and gross negligence on Maribel Chavez’s management team.
To Wit: Your criminal negligence, gross negligence, willful and malicious misconduct, and other criminal and civil wrongs in allowing violent drug gangs, drug dealers, drug users, drunks and other violent individuals and groups supported by the HELP of Southern Nevada and Clark County have directly and constantly terrorized and tortured the victim/plaintiff and created animal abuse against plaintiff’s service animal. You have survived your criminal behavior by the corruption of certain public officials, and their assistance namely Sheriff Joseph Lombardo, Mayor Caroline Goodman, Congresswoman Dina Titus and others who champion a sanctuary city for criminals and attack innocent vulnerable elderly holding them hostage in their homes, due to the violence and failure of local government to act lawfully. To end that unlawfulness, it is necessary to take the case to the federal court if an out of court settlement cannot be reached between the plaintiff and Jim Tsay and Lily Lin and in a separate litigation the individual public officials responsible for the wrongs committed against innocent tenants and citizens.
To Wit: As repeatedly requested to comply with law and provide active security, you fail to place adequate security on the ground. The plaintiff has a legal right to provide such security and charge the defendants for such.
To Wit. Further the slumlord Shyr-Jin-Tsay, and his disciples have repeatedly reduced services of even the most basic common things such as providing the tenant with copies of his utility bill and for the simple cost of a page of paper refused repeatedly to provide the tenant with the lawful copies. That will be extremely costly as we shall bring in all former assistant managers, on the witness stand, if need be, and review this unlawful slumlord criminal action and many others.
To Wit: Maribel Chavez has no vested legal rights in representing the corporation or any other party in this litigation, only herself. This notice was drafted in haste due to the notice of pest control threats upon the tenant.
To Wit: Any continued elder abuse, retaliation, failure to uphold the local, state, and federal laws governing this establishment shall be met with the most severe avenues of justice provided to the tenant/victim/plaintiff. If you disrupt my sleep without appointment, you will be charged with felony vulnerable elder abuse even if I must perform citizen arrests.
To Wit: Maribel Chavez and her employees and agents shall not disturb the plaintiff while federal investigators are investigating, and litigation is in progress with Shyr-Jin-Tsay and family.
To Wit: The defendants listed in this action shall not travel outside their domain resident and workplace, or place of business without permission from the plaintiff. The defendants shall not take any action to avoid liability to the plaintiff. The defendants shall not sell or transfer any assets while litigation is ongoing.
To Wit: All communications shall be in writing and no verbal communication shall be allowed. Appointments only are accepted due to the plaintiff’s health condition.
To Wit: Formal written legal notices are in progress and expected to be delivered soon to the defendant, Shyr-Jin-Tsay, his wife Barbara and his daughter Lily Lin. IT IS ALL PUBLIC INFORMATION AS ALL COURT ACTIONS ARE.
Sign
Clifford G. Harrison, Plaintiff
15 Years Ago Jessica Foster Vanished into Thin Air from North Las Vegas
Posted: 29/03/2021 Filed under: Las Vegas, Local, News | Tags: Jessica Foster, Las Vegas, Las Vegas Tribune, Missing Persons, North Las Vegas, Vegas Valley, Writer, Writing 1 CommentIt was on this day, 29 March 2006, 15-years-ago when young, 21-year-old Jessica Foster disappeared without a trace from a Las Vegas community.
At the time I was involved with heavily searching the Las Vegas Valley for missing persons and our team spent exhausting hours in the hunt for Jessica Foster. We had been successful in finding a few missing persons, some with good endings and some not. And some were found but did not want to be found. As adults, they have that right. Reporting back to the ones who asked our team to conduct the search was always difficult in such a case, and we had more than a few we had to handle with such an outcome. But we were never able to find Jessica. We did have one reported sighting we investigated and it turned out to be a false lead of a homeless woman who fit the description but was positively identified NOT to be Miss Foster.
There was no crowdfunding reward system set up at the time for information leading to the arrest and conviction of anyone involved in criminal responsibility for Miss Foster’s disappearance. The Go Fund Me crowd-share or crowdfunding site had not yet been founded. It would not be founded for another four or five years. Go Fund Me was launched in May of 2010. Someone somewhere knows what happened to Jessica Foster. There has been much suspicion on her disappearance but nothing that could lead to an arrest. But there are people who had contact with Miss Foster and there are people who are connected to those people of interest. A reward might get someone somewhere to loosen their lips. I’m not in a position right now to start and run that Go Fund Me REWARD fund that may lead to the arrest and conviction of anyone responsible for Jessica Foster’s disappearance or death. But I’d like to get the idea out there and hope someone will.
Cold case criminal files can turn burning hot with the passage of time. Departed friendship and loyal relationships went sour to full disloyalty may sweeten the chances of someone now being willing to come forward that wasn’t willing back when Jessica Foster disappeared. A sizable reward that a crowdfunding source could raise would certainly provide better odds in finding the missing Canadian girl who was lured to Las Vegas by persons of suspicious behavior. The past 15 years proved nothing in bringing the case any closer to resolution. Someone needs to start a Go Fund Me and let us see what happens. If it can pry someone loose to talking that will lead investigators to the perpetrators or a body, then justice might just be done.
At the time Jessica or Jessie Foster disappeared there were several local girls who also disappeared. Some of those cases were solved and some were not. There was a lot of prostitution and involvement of pimps, human traffickers, and drug dealers in some of those missing person cases that lead to serious violent crime. The Vegas Valley is home to where tens of thousands disappear without a trace. The morgue is filled with the victims of crime produced in the Vegas Valley, some innocent, and some not so innocent.
There are certain conditions and restrictions that need to be applied in such crowdfunding reward funds to be effective and to prevent misuse of funds. Also, if there is no response, there needs to be either a full return of monies donated or an agreement to switch those funds to another missing person case or for other uses involving predator crimes. I will post some of those ideas at another time. But after 15 years no one is talking and we need to find ways to get someone talking so there is closure on this long-unsolved mystery.
The Vegas Valley community has always been keenly concerned with Jessica Foster’s disappearance. There were some high-level missing person detectives on the case and some of the best talents were shared among us that did the groundwork in search.
The Vegas Valley has seen more than its share of serial killing, mass killing, missing person cases, human trafficking, and vice crimes for any city to endure. I have my own personal opinions as to why this may be, we have in the valley an overabundance of criminal behavior that goes unsolved, but I will reserve those thoughts for another time.
One thing that cannot be denied the mothers of daughters who come to Vegas and never return home are many, and their tears will forever fall.
If it is not heartbreaking enough that daughters disappear without a trace, it is alarming the scams and crimes people create upon those already suffering the pain. The Las Vegas Tribune reports of the scams Jessica Foster’s mother is forced to endure. Not one, but several. What kind of evil could do this to a woman who has lost the most precious things of her life? What kind of demon have we among us? Whatever it is, it is not human.
The Las Vegas Tribune Editorial on Jessica Foster
A Las Vegas Tribune Story on Jessica Foster By Perly Viasmensky
The Las Vegas Tribune 2 April 2020
The Las Vegas Tribune 28 March 2019
Internet Images of and related to Jessica Foster
The Disappearance of Jessica Foster
Author’s Note: The use of two names, Jessica and/or Jessie are used in reference to the same missing girl. Both names are used and both names are correct. Also, there is a discrepancy in the date of the missing person claimed. Some reports say 28 March or 29 March and others say early April. There is much-recorded information to be found on the internet as well as YouTube for stories concerning Jessica Foster or Jessie Foster. The stories of violent crime in the Vegas Valley are many and they have been since the existence of the city.
Republican to Challenge Liberal Nevada Attorney General
Posted: 05/03/2021 Filed under: Las Vegas, News, Political Commentary | Tags: Blogs & eBooks, Nevada, Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford, Politics, Republican Sigal Chattah, Sigal Chattah, Sigal Chattah Las Vegas attorney to Challenge Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford, Writers, Writing Leave a commentRepublican Sigal Chattah, a Las Vegas attorney, is going to challenge Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford, Gov. Steve Sisolak ‘s lapdog in the 2022 election. She has already started at least two lawsuits against the administration which puts her head-to-head with Ford in the courtroom with Ford on the defense.

https://lasvegassun.com/news/2021/mar/04/republican-chattah-to-challenge-ford-for-attorney/ Sisolak's lapdog has a high-profile challenger for 2022.
More Taxpayers’ Money Funneling Addicts?
Posted: 26/04/2022 | Author: Cliff Harrison | Filed under: Clark County, Cliff Harrison Columns, Commentary, Humanitarianism, Las Vegas, News | Tags: Blogs, Cliff Harrison, Clifford G. Harrison, Drug Addicts, Help Hope Home, HELP of Southern Nevada, IRS 501(c)(3)s, Wasting Taxpayers Money, Writer, Writing | Leave a commentHelp Hope Home on Facebook (Clark County)
Help Hope Home Website
The comment I left on Facebook for this announcement:
“So, is the City of Las Vegas, Clark County and this “nonprofit” going to stop people from being evicted so landlords can make a money grab? Are these “homeless rescue” programs going to follow the criminal HELP of Southern Nevada protocol that crowds violent freeloaders with drug and alcohol addiction in with vulnerable elderly so they can abuse them? If so I smell litigation to put an end to this waste of taxpayer money. There are more jobs available now with higher pay than any time in history. Detox these homeless, put them to work and STOP abusing the taxpayers’ money on violent criminals with treatable addictions. House them in your own neighborhoods or tents until they are willing to shift from freeloading and partying to a self-responsible productive lifestyle.”
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I searched high and low for IRS nonprofit information for a 501(c)(3) by the name Help Hope Home and came up negative. It is too early to conclude and I need more time to research. I have a feeling this outfit is tied to HELP of Southern Nevada which is a local nonprofit worshipped by the City of Las Vegas and the County of Clark and even had their roots to these government agencies. HELP of Southern Nevada has been in the homeless racket for 52 years. They all claim to be “ending homelessness” but the taxpayers money funneled to this worthless cause is endless. Never will they “end” homelessness the way they operate. And they know it. There is huge liability when government agencies and nonprofits marry. We’ll be discussing such issues in future posts.
A comment posted by a Facebook user named, Bruce Henry said, “No such thing as Federal Funds it is all Taxpayers Funds period. Stop this disinformation please.” I agree with that statement 100%.
One of the primary reasons I am opposed to any government agency using taxpayer funds to support nonprofits is they do NOT supervise or investigate what they fund. They just hand our money over and that is the end of it. Aside of being a victimized vulnerable elderly by city, county and nonprofit clients and being in an apartment complex where they turn these freeloading addicts and drug dealers loose without any security or supervision, I can testify there is NO detox. NO work program. NO guidance to a better life with productive results. NO successful conclusion to dependence while establishing an independent and productive life for these clients. There is just 24/7 partying and vice–with ZERO SECURITY, an unlawful condition.
There is widespread corruption pointing directly to these nonprofits and the government agencies and public officials which subvert American taxpayers’ money to violent criminals with no oversight. They do this by setting up these homeless funneling operations with landlords/slumlords who violate just about every law on the books and they engage in conspiracy and racketeering with these entities. I am not saying that this organization is doing that, there is still too much information that needs to be collected, but as for the city, county and other nonprofits, there is a long line of evidence I will be presenting that will either shut these operations down or upset the taxpayers whose funds are being channeled to unlawful sources that are against the public’s trust. One rule the IRS has about nonprofits is that they MUST work within the realms of the public trust.
Much more will be coming. Stay tuned. Scroll down and read the post below where I call for Clark County Nevada’s Sheriff Joseph Lombardo to resign and withdraw his run for Nevada’s governor office. That post is loaded with names and events that have occurred where I reside and has not gotten better, but much worst. I posted that article almost a year ago. I was violently attacked shortly thereafter and I have been attacked repeatedly since.
Most people would agree that if someone is homeless we support giving them a helping hand and a support group to help them get on their feet to a productive life. That is NOT what is happening here. Full dependence and full abuse of the taxpayers and donors money is being committed.
Some people may not like what I post. That is okay, they can change the channel anytime they wish. I post more for a public record and an accounting of the conditions and of the corruption and crimes that public officials, their agencies, nonprofits and other entities commit more than anything else.